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Topic: Preposition phrase

These resources cover preposition phrases (sometimes called prepositional phrase): phrases with a preposition as the Head word. Typically the preposition is followed by a noun or noun phrase. The following are all preposition phrases: at home, under the table, in a very bad mood.

Phrases

A phrase consists of one or more words that belong together. It takes one of the major word class elements (noun, adjective, etc.) as its Head.

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Prepositions in instructional writing

Prepositions are particularly important when trying to communicate instructions about time and place.

The Activity page appears in the menu entitled 'This Unit' in the upper right corner of this page. The Activity page contains one slide: an example of instructional writing from our corpus. You can see that quite precise instructions are given as part of a recipe. It is reprinted below with the prepositions highlighted.

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